The Pennsylvania winter of 1882 was cruel in a way that had nothing to do with temperature. It was the cruelty of a system that functioned exactly as designed, and the design was theft.
Edward Ashworth stood in his boarding house room in Harrisburg, the winter light gray and thin as it fell through a window that had not been properly sealed since the Civil War. On the table before him lay a leather portfolio containing documents that could destroy a United States Senator, three federal judges, and the largest railroad consortium in the American economy. He had possessed those...
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